April 24 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on April 24

Born	Writer	Known as
1974	Eric Kripke	American writer and television producer (born 1974)
1973	Damon Lindelof	American screenwriter and producer (born 1973)
1959	Paula Yates	British television personality and writer (1959–2000)
1953	Eric Bogosian	American actor, playwright, and author (born 1953)
1951	Christian Bobin	French author and poet (1951–2022)
1941	Richard Holbrooke	American diplomat and author (1941–2010)
1940	Sue Grafton	American writer (1940–2017)
1934	Jayakanthan	Indian writer, journalist, filmmaker
1934	Shirley MacLaine	American actress and author (born 1934)
1923	Doris Burn	American writer
1914	Justin Wilson (chef)	American chef, actor and writer (1914–2001)
1905	Robert Penn Warren	American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905–1989)
1900	Elizabeth Goudge	English novelist and children's writer (1900–1984)
1845	Carl Spitteler	Swiss writer (1845–1924)
1815	Anthony Trollope	English novelist (1815–1882)

Writers who died on April 24

Died	Writer	Known as
2017	Robert M. Pirsig	American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
2014	Tadeusz Różewicz	Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator (1921–2014)
2004	José Giovanni	French writer, filmmaker and criminal (1923-2004)
1984	Rafael Pérez y Pérez	Spanish writer (1891–1984)
1980	Alejo Carpentier	Cuban novelist (1904–1980)
1966	Simon Chikovani	Georgian poet
1947	Willa Cather	American writer (1873–1947)
1942	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Canadian novelist (1874–1942)
1941	Karin Boye	Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)
1931	David Kldiashvili	David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (born 1862)
1889	Zulma Carraud	French author
1852	Vasily Zhukovsky	Russian poet (1783–1852)
1748	Anton thor Helle	Estonian Bible translator
1731	Daniel Defoe	English writer, merchant and spy (1660–1731)
1479	Jorge Manrique	Spanish poet

Literary events on April 24

Year	Event
1800	The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1800	The Library of Congress (building pictured), the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
1704	The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1704	John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.
1183 BC	Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others.

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Eric Kripke (1974) — Eric Kripke is an American writer and television producer. Kripke came to prominence in the late 2000s for creating The WB/CW fantasy drama series Supernatural (2005–2020). He served as the showrunner during the first five seasons of the series.

Damon Lindelof (1973) — Damon Laurence Lindelof is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, and producer. Among his accolades, he has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, from twelve nominations. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Paula Yates (1959) — Paula Elizabeth Yates was a British television presenter and writer. She was best known for presenting the Channel 4 television programmes The Tube and The Big Breakfast.

April 24 in literary history

Writers born on April 24

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